A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions - Phys.org
science 2026/02/09 18:00:23

A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Brookhaven National Laboratory

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated through the twin 2.4-mile-circumference rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and crashed into one another at nearly the sp…